Lotte Jacobi (American, –1990)

Timeline

1896
Born: Thorn, Poland
1925–1935
Operated her family's photo portrait studio, Berlin, Germany
1935
Manhattan portrait studio, New York, NY
1935–1955
Emigrated to New York, NY
1955
Moved to New Hampshire
1990
Died: Concord, NH

Exhibitions

2010
Tendenzen europäischer Photographie um 1930, Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, Berlin, Germany
2009
Spotlight - Eight Women Photographers from the Preus Museum Collection, Preus fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
KÜNSTERPORTRÄTS, Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin, Germany
Photo20esimo: maestri della fotografia del XX secolo; Museo D'Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland
2007–2008
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2006–2007
busy going crazy - the Sylvio Perlstein collection, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
2005
A Record of Friendship - Lotte Jacobi's Pre-War Photographs, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (solo)
Portraits im Aufbruch, Albertina, Wien, Austria
Der fotografierte Mensch, Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Talking Pictures, Galerie Berinson, Berlin, Germany
2004–2005
Woman: Metamorphosis of modernity, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Faces, Places, Traces - New Acquisitions to the Photographs Collection, National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
Jump, Skip, Swirl, Pose - Photogrpahs from the 1880s and 1970s, AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Women of Our Time, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2003–2004
Focus on the Soul - The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY (solo)
Fokus Mensch - Man in Focus: Menschenbilder aus der Photosammlung Helmut Gernsheim, Reiss-Engelhorn- Museen I REM, Mannheim, Germany
2003
Face to Face, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
1998
Atelier Lotte Jacobi: Berlin - New York. Fotografien der 20er und 30er Jahren, Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen (solo)
1997
Images from the Machine Age, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
1994
Lotte Jacobi: Old and New Worlds, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY (solo)
1990
Lotte Jacobi 1896-1990, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen (solo)
1989
Noted Women Photographers of the 20’s and 30’s, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Lotte Jacobi: Photographs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (solo)
Lotte Jacobi. Mellankrigstidens porträttör, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (solo)

Public Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
IAC - Institute d'art contemporain Villeurbann/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON

Literature

2002
Moriarty, Peter A. Lotte Jacobi: Photographs. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 2002
1998
Beckers, Marion and Elisabeth Moortgat. Lotte Jacobi: Berlin, New York. Berlin: Nicolai Verlag, 1998
1978
Wise, Kelly. Lotte Jacobi. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1978
English (US)

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